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Should I use Reaper?
My music is very simple. I come up with chords on my guitar and a melody to sing and then I record it into a handheld mic. Sometimes I throw the file into Audacity to adjust volume and add fades. Naturally my finished products have a lot of background noise and sometimes clip pretty obviously. I've been doing that for five years now and never wanted to do more but recently I feel like it's time to improve.
The obvious solution would be to buy better equipment and probably even assemble a home studio. I don't have a lot of money so I can't do that until I save up. But if an actual DAW can help me sound better without having to do that I'll check it out.
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>>68846598
I use it, works great for what I wanna do. There's plenty of effects for you to work and toy with too, if you wanna try doing something different. Go for it
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>>68846598
Reaper is good, I like it. Nice and simple. If your music is simple, by all means use Reaper! It is essentially free, until you want to pay...
>background noise and sometimes clip pretty obviously
Well, about these issues, background noise can be from whatever you're recording (eg. Room noise), or if you put your recordings into Reaper, when you boost a tracks volume, the noise floor will be very audible.
Clipping is because either your mic and whatever amplifier it is plugged into is getting hit with too much volume, or you are mastering your stuff too loud. If your stuff sounds like it is clipping, but Reaper isn't showing that the track is hitting 0dB, it is probably your handheld mic and whatever soundcard/device it is running into.
>if an actual DAW can help me sound better
A DAW is just a set of tools. How the tools are used are what makes things sound good, along with your recording equipment too.
BTW you can do the fades in Reaper with automation on the master track. You have to turn the master track view on. Works great.
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>>68846598
youll be fine with reaper for that and there are some decent free plugins if you feel you need them
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>>68847676
double doubles and trips confirm.
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>>68847444
sweet dude. yeah I've used the same handheld recorder all this time and it's pretty bad about clipping just by itself alone. although I think I probably busted it at some point doing something stupid with it, who knows. oh and yeah I figured that about DAWs in general. being an Audacity peasant for so long I really have no idea. thanks for your help!
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Just use ableton
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>>68846598
Use FL studio, you will thank me later
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>>68849496
lol, FL is babbers first beats DAW, not for anyone wanting to make serious music
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>>68849507
Lifetime updates best part of the whole thing
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>>68849534
you get that with Ableton as well
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>>68849507
Piano roll is underrated
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>>68849507
>FL is babbers first beats DAW
this is what plebs say, if you're any good at music FL studio is more than enough
better than garbage like Reason
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>>68849619
Yeah but "more than enough" doesn't preclude you from finding something better
I reckon given 100 hours practice in both Ableton and FL, the FL song would sound better. But given 1000 hours practice in both the Ableton one would sound better.
Ableton has tighter envelopes and the improvements made in Live9 were really impressive.
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>>68847855
>Audacity peasant
wtf dude
aduacity is master race
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